Merger, She Wrote

So acquisition talks between Yahoo and Microsoft have broken down, and this is good for me, the lowly consumer, because....? I'm concerned about food and gas prices, and the financial analysts are telling me about some billionaires who won't be getting even richer this week. CEO's are being handed stratospheric amounts of money when they get fired from tanking corporations, and I'm stretching my budget to buy lacrosse balls for my high school team because the school can't come up with a few bucks. My theory of economics is akin to heat exchange in thermodynamics, when somebody gets richer somebody else gets poorer to the same extent.

We're tickled pink, yesterday's cartoon was picked up by Michael Levine's daily e-mail newsletter (lbnelert@timewire.net). Over a quarter of a million subscribers! Cool!